Questions & Answers about Juče sam napravila plan.
What tense is sam napravila?
It is the past tense in Serbian, often called the perfect.
It is formed with:
- the present-tense auxiliary biti (sam = I am / I have, as an auxiliary here)
- plus the past participle: napravila
So:
- sam napravila = I made / I have made
In everyday Serbian, this is the normal way to talk about completed actions in the past.
Why do we use sam here?
Sam is the 1st person singular auxiliary form of biti used in the past tense.
For I:
- ja sam napravila = I made
In Serbian, the subject pronoun ja is often omitted because sam already shows the person:
- Juče sam napravila plan. = Yesterday I made a plan.
So sam is not optional in standard Serbian past tense; it is an important part of the verb form.
Why is it napravila and not napravio?
Because the speaker is female.
In Serbian past tense, the participle agrees with the gender of the subject:
- = used by a speaker